Introduction to Critical Lenses

Question 1

Gender literary critics are interested in all of the following EXCEPT

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getting more females elected to office

Question 2

Critics who challenge that our civilization is a patriarchy (male dominated) are

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Gender Critics

Question 3

Which critics would agree that meaning is an event created when reader and text interact?

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Reader Response Critics

Question 4

Critics who identify and analyze rhetorical and literary devices in a text are

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Formalist

Question 5

Which critics see literary works as a reflection of the author’s life and times?

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Historical

Question 6

Which two schools of criticism are influenced by Carl Jung’s ideas?

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Archetypal and Psychoanalytic

Question 7

Which critics are interested in patterns that recur over many works throughout cultures?

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Archetypal

Question 8

According to Freud, the ego is

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conscious; the id and super-ego battle under the surface

Question 9

The movement of economic power through time is a main focus of

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Marxist Critics

Question 10

Psychoanalytic critics consider the three levels of the mind, which according to Freud, are the

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id, ego, superego

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